Wednesday, December 9, 2009



The website
All my life for sale
is a website devoted to the exploration of material possessions and the role they play in shaping who we are. the man in this particular scenario, John Freyer, invited fifty different people to his home in order to categorize and catalog every material possession in his life. The resulting list of artifacts was put on sale on ebay and thus integrated on the world wide web. All fo the items in John Freyer's life were dispensed with and sold online. The beginning idea was to liberate Freyer and to assist in his mobility. Over time the idea mutated into traveling the world reconnecting with the lost artifacts of his former life. The implication is that somehow we are shaped by our interaction with the inanimate and evolve into the people we are because of the interactions set up for us with our chance encounters with things that don't truly exist ( at least on a level of existence that equals our own.) The website is set up simply with the colors resembling the color schemes of the almighty Ebay. The site is set up much like various online shopping sites of today, except in this case the person question didn't just do some spring cleaning he got rid of everything and still held onto a modicum of his fomrer life through the visititation of the objects .

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